Fire repair begun on Ferrell Oil plant blaze last Friday
Repair started after a major fire at the Ferrell Oil Company plant, where 29,000 gallons of gasoline burned. The blaze began during transfer from a railroad tank car to an 11,000 gallon tank, sparked likely by an electric switch. Fire engulfed three containers and damaged adjacent buildings, with two workers burned and others aiding in suppression.
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Ferrell Oil Company
oil company
Missouri Pacific
Malone avenue
Prairie avenue
Ferrell
Bertrand Couple Observe Golden Wedding
The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Brewer of the Armer community Mississippi county was celebrated with family and friends at their country home. The couple, married December 13, 1899, have long been Methodist members and raised a large family including six children and ten grandchildren. A large gathering plus a prior family dinner at Rustic Rock Inn preceded the celebration.
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G. D. Brewer
Armer
Bertrand
Mississippi county
Local Woman Hunter Kills Eight-Point Buck in Ozarks
Mrs W B Malone Sr of Sikeston is likely the only woman to bag a deer among hundreds of hunters in the Ozarks last week. She killed an eight-point buck near Sullivan, Mo, weighing about 200 pounds, while sitting by a tree at 7:15 Thursday morning. She had joined her husband and son Buddy on hunts for four seasons but this was her first shot at a deer. The buck approached after a nearby doe and a male followed. Malone fired a 12 gauge shell at the forehead. the shot passed through the mouth and neck. Two other Sikeston men, Jess Hamby Sr and Jess LaFentress, also hunted but did not bag deer. Hamby finally killed a deer after a long chase near Bloomsdale. Missouri Conservation Commission reports at least 1,100 deer killed by about 1,700 hunters, with later totals possible. Eugene Blackburn of Chamois is credited with the largest bag, an 8-point buck weighing 231 pounds dressed. In Ware, Illinois, 47-year-old Joe M Cummings died after a headon collision between his truck and a Mid-West Dairy Products Corp truck on Illinois Highway 1. The other driver was C Dempsey Craft of Cape Girardeau. Cummings died about 31 hours after the crash, in a Ware hospital. Funeral services were held at Murphysboro for Cummings. He is survived by his wife.
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Ozark woods
W. B. Malone Sr
Sikeston
Mrs. Malone
Missouri Conservation Commission
Commission
Eugene Blackburn
Chamois
Joe M. Cummings
Morley
Mid-West Dairy Products Corp
Ware
Mlinois
C Dempsey Craft
Cape Girardeau
Cummings
Murphysbro
ielanies
Tom Sparkman
Alice Lee
Verna
Vera
Sparkman
Glen
Carroll
Searcy
Ark
Freeman
Clyde Freeman
Missouri School of Mines
Rolla
Hollis Gunn
Owosso
Mich
Winter Storm Ravages Missouri Arkansas Killing Eleven
Severe weather struck parts of Missouri and Arkansas last Sunday, killing eleven and injuring more than twenty in rural Butler County near Poplar Bluff and across several communities. Farm homes were destroyed, a party celebrating a birthday dispersed hours before, and lines and livestock suffered major damage. Additional fatalities occurred in Providence Cross Roads Arkansas and lightning killed a child in Modesto Illinois.
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Missouri
Arkansas
Chnois
Poplar Bluff
Butler county
Highway 60
Weather summary: mostly cloudy and warmer trend
The forecast notes cloudy skies and a warmer trend. Past week highs ranged from 19 to 61 degrees with varied lows, and total rainfall for the period was 0.22 inches. November rainfall reached 0.65 inches.
Cotton Ginnings Reported for Sikesion Gins This Season
The three Sikesion gins have ginned 9641 bales this season and local ginners say about 9 percent of the territory’s cotton has been ginned.
Sikeston council requires underground oil tanks citywide
At a special meeting the Sikeston city council amended an ordinance to require all oil tanks of 500 gallons or more within the city to be placed underground with tops at least one foot below ground. It ordered strict enforcement of the existing rule that above ground tanks be surrounded by a watertight wall equal in capacity to the tank to prevent leaks, noting few tanks already meet the requirement. The council also sent $100 to the Charleston fire department and $50 to the New Madrid fire department for help at last Friday’s Ferrell Oil Co. fire.
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Ferrell Oil Company
Sikeston
Charleston
Mail Yuletide Packages Today To Insure Delivery
Postmaster Pleas Malcolm announced Yuletide parcels must be mailed by tomorrow to ensure delivery before Christmas. Air Parcel Post advised for later shipments. Seasonal mail volume doubles to about 12,000 daily as fragile gifts spill, urging heavy wrapping and inner address cards.
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Malcolm
Yuletide parcel post
Air Parcel Post service
Two Die In Afternoon Traffic Crashes In Southeast Missouri
Two persons died yesterday in separate two vehicle accidents near Sikeston and Canalou. Freddie Joe Hazel 15 of Sikeston died when his 1936 Studebaker overturned on Van Dyser road while Norval Gibson 23 injured. In Canalou a second crash killed Mrs Mattie Brunt 49 after collision with a 1939 Buick, while Bert Moore 36 injured and others escaped unharmed.
A Message From Missouri Delta Community Hospital
The Missouri Delta Hospital marks its first year of operation ending December 1 with 2645 bed patients 976 ambulatory patients 611 surgeries 644 live births and 21 still births. The hospital seeks 30000 to finish buildings and replenish the operating fund urging community support without personal solicitations to keep standards high and serve charity cases. John D. Hux Kendall Sikes EP Coleman Jr. President Massoun Delta Community Hospital
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Missouri Delta Hospital
Saratso
the
Commonwealth Fund
Jordan
John D. Hux
Kendall Sikes
EP. Coleman, Jr
Massoun Delta Community Hospital
Fall From Automobile Fatal to Lilbourn Boy
Donald Ratliff aged 3 of Lalbourn died after falling from a moving car on Highway 61 about 11:00 a.m. Saturday. He was taken to a Sikeston doctor’s office and pronounced dead. Funeral services were held Monday at the Pentecostal church in Lilbourn with Rev. C W Harris officiating. Interment followed at Mounds Park cemetery. He was born August 26, 1946, and survived by his parents, four sisters, and two brothers.
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Donald Ratliff
William Ratliff
Lalbourn
Highway 61
here
Sikeston
Pentecostal
Lilbourn
C W. Harris
Mounds Park cemetery
Ponder
Donald
Rector boy injured in highway fall near Oran
Roger C. Rector, five, of Steele, was injured but not seriously when he fell from a family car on Highway 55 near Oran last Sunday afternoon. He was brought to Delta Community Hospital after treatment by an Oran physician. He suffered minor injuries to his head.
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Roger C. Rector
Steele
Oran
cild
Gilbert Rector
Delta Communis Hospital
beng treatal
M.cer.iangs
meget Kroe
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municipal electric light and power plant
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Mill B
Scott County Milling Company
New Madrid
municipal electric plant
Airport
white way
Richard Barker
Barker
Ned Cline
Page Five
Brewer
J. H. Cowell
Nettleton
Sam Shelburne
Oklahoma City
Okla
Harry Giltz
Naomi Robinson
Farmington, Mo
John Gary
G. D. McAdoo
Frank Smith
Earl Presson
Jack Campbell
Portland
Ore
Dorothea Roth
J. B. Eure
O. F. Anderson
Benton
William Powell
Malden
Frank Brewer
Arlington, Va
James W. Baker
Columbia, Mo
James Shelburne Brewer
Blytheville
Paul E. Brewer
Portageville
Fred Winston
Grinstead Brewer
Harry Giltz Jr
Clarence Crumpecker
Morehouse
Ollie Cowell
Rustic Rock
Jess Hamby Sr
Jess LaFentres
Mr Hamby
Bloomsdale
Ste. Genevieve county
Hamby
La Fentress
ILLINOIS
Andy Freeman
Mattie Freeman
Providence
Cross Roads
John Winningham
Mandy Winningham
Hiram Winningham
Arch Talley
Modesto
Inl
Junia Kay Lovelace
Hannibal
Mark Twain
St Louis
municipal electric power plant
Center street
Sikeston Farm
Canaloa
Freddie Joe Hazel
Studebaker
Vandyser road
Norval Gibson
Hazel
Gibson
Hazel boy
Delta Community Hospital
Memorial Park
Jim Hazel
Billie Ruth
Juanita
Carol Lee
Jennie Lee
Carolyn Sue
Harald Gene
Canalou
Morehouse-Lilbourn and
Canalou road
Mattie Brunt
Bert Moore
Moore
Jose A. Mascarro
Canaloda
Missouri Delta Community Hospital
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